Means for packing cigarettes



March 1 1927. 1,619,Q6 2

'G.C.EKSTRCM ETAL MEANS FOR PACKING GIGARETTES Filed July 7. 1921 Patented Mar. 1, 1927.

UNITED STATES 1,619,062 PATENT @FECE.

eunuaa cnnrs'rreu Exs'rntu/r AND GUST-AF cas'raeur, or sroonnoma; AND BROR ANDERS ElVII-L JOENSON, or nrrutvinnn; swn'nnn, ASSIG-NORS ro AKrIEBoLAe- ET GERH. AREHNS MEKANISKA VERKSTA D, OF

TION OF SWEDEN.

STOCLHOLIJI, I SVI'EDEN, A CORPORA- MEANS FOR PACKING CIGARETTES.

Application filed July 7, 1921, seine No. 483,667, and. in Sweden June 11; 1921.

lVhen cigarettes provided with print, such as the name ot a firm, trade mark, the name of the cigarette, etc, are charged in boxes, packets or the like, the cigarettes are so placed that the said print is turned upward in the box. When cigarettes are packed, the cross section ofwhichis oval, the cigarettes besides are so placed in the boxes, that the same, having the print turned upward, partially cover one another. The packing of such cigarettes hitherto has been effected manually, because the cigarettes in ordinary packing machines have an opportunity of turning, so that they would not get the desired position in the boxes. In order that the cigarettes may be mechanically placed into the packets in a predetermined position it is absolutely necessary that the cigarettes, While transported from the cigarette making machine to the packing device have no occasion to turn. For the transporting of the cigarettes to the packing device carriers are known, in which the cigarettes are held in a distinct position and from which they are positively transmitted into the packet, but hitherto the cigarettes have been delivered to the said carrier from a magazine or in such manner that the cigarettes are able to turn while delivered. For that reason the packing of cigarettes into the packets in a predetermined position hitnerto has been effected manually.

This invention relates to a device which positively transmits the cigarettes respectively .t'rom the cigarette producing members oi the machine to the said carrier and positively places the cigarettes into the holders of the said carriers, so that the cigarettes never have any occasion to turn. The transmitting ot the cigarettes to the carrier may be effected by one or more conveyers provided with pockets or holders for keeping the cigarettes in fixed position, which conveyers permit the inspection of the cigarettes.

Fig. 1 ot the accompanying drawing shows diagrammatically one term of the in vention. Fig. 2 is a detail.

The means shown in the drawing 1 is adapted to co-operate with a cigarette mak ing machine of the known type, in which the cigarettes are cut from a string. The cross section of the cigarettes is oval. The

chine. The cigarette placed on the table 1 is transmitted by a fork shaped arm 7 (or two arms), oscillating round a shaft 6, into the pocket 4: located for the present at the table. In this manner the cigarettes one after another are introduced into the pockets 4E. The strips 5 preferably have an 0blique position, so that the pockets 4 at the reception side of the drum extend upwards in an oblique direction and the cigarettes thus surely remain in the pockets. While the cigarettes are in the pockets they may easily be inspected and the detective ones removed. The size of the pockets 4 is so adapted, that the cigarettes are held in the same in a fixed position. On the opposite side of the drum 3 in relation to the table 1 carriers 8 are moved in a slanting path and in unbroken succession. The said carriers 8 consist of plates provided with oblique ribs 9 forming pockets 10 for the re ceiving, for instance, of five cigarettes. The said carriers are located in a receptacle 11 and are acted upon by a loose wall or piston 12 forced forward by a weight 12 toward an abutment 13. The foremost carrier of the set is moved downward by a piston 14, until it is caught by two rotating .disks 15, which are provided with radial pins, engaging holes in the edge parts of the plate 8 and moving in a positive manner the plate downwards in suitable guides 16, in which the said edge parts slide. The carrier 8 is moved past the drum 3, near the same, and during the movement arms 17, connected with the arms 7, move the cigarettes from the pockets 4 into the pockets 10 ot the carrier 8. The said pockets 10 are thus filled with cigarettes, which get a fixed, unchangeable position in the said pockets. The carrier is moved further downward by two disks 18 provided with radial pins and are placed into a receptacle 19, in which the carriers charged with cigarettes are forced backwards by a piston 20. During this movement the carriers are supported by a yielding plate 21, piston or the like. The carriers charged with cigarettes may be pushed from the pockets of the carriers, having preferably a horizontal position directly into boxes, packets or the like. The cigarettes, entering the boxes, turn somewhat downwards, so that they will cover one another partially in the row and the print of the cigarettes is turned upwards.

As seen from the above, the cigarettes during their transportation from the table I to the cigarette packing machine have no occasion at all of turning. For that reason all cigarettes will get the proper position in the boxes.

Arms 7 and 17 are oscillated for instance by a cam disk and a spring, not shown. Drum 3, arms 7 and 17, disks 15 and 18 and pistons 14 and 20 are driven by suitable motion transmitting means not shown.

Other positively operating means than those illustrated in the drawing may, evidently, be used for carrying out the invention in question. The present invention may be used also for packing cigaretttes having no print and other staff-shaped articles.

We claim:

In a device for transmitting cigarettes, oval in cross section, from a cigarette making machine to a carrier, in which the cigarettes are held in a distinct position and by means of which they are moved to a packing device, the provision of a substan tially horizontal, stationary support, on

which the cigarettes are delivered from the cigarette producing members of the said ma-- chine, a member moving the cigarettes positively and transversely on the said support, a conveyer located at the side of the said support and provided with holders, in which the igarettes are placed by the movmember, means moving the said carrier past the said conveyer, and a member transmitting the cigarettes transversely from the conveyer into the holders of the arrrier.

In testimony whereof we have afiixed our signatures.

GUNNAR CHRISTIAN EKSTRQM. BROR ANDERS 'EMIL JOHNSON.

GUSTAF oRsTRoM. 

